Basketball talents to be scouted by colleges

BASKETBALL: An Australian first for girls basketball will happen right here on the Sunshine Coast.

The Sunshine Coast Phoenix will host a National Collegiate Athletic Association girls only exposure camp run by United States group Premier Basketball.

A total of 15 NCAA Division one college coaches will fly in for the event scouting players tomorrow.

About 30 girls, aged from Year 9-12, from across Queensland will hit the courts with aspirations of impressing the coaches in a bid to secure a US College Basketball scholarship.

Among them will be four Sunshine Coast talents in Courtney Murphy, Dustie Obah, Georgia Berry and Ashley Blake.

Sunshine Coast Basketball Association vice president Daniel Murphy said to host such a large number of top college coaches, including some hailing from Washington State and Saint Mary's, was unprecedented.

In previous years the coaches have travelled to the AIS (Australian Institute of Sport).

"This will be the first time in girls basketball that we've seen something like this happen, so it's a pretty huge event,” he said.

For the event to happen on the Coast was icing on the cake.

"We've never had something like this on the Coast and you would have never had something like this happen in Brisbane, probably Sydney or Melbourne,” he said.

"I'm still quite amazed that we managed to pull it off and that they are coming here.